IOWA: Never Again

"They're seizing the power plant and the
telephone building now," boomed the voice over the public-address
system. "Henceforth, they will be the property of the state. A boy has
been arrested for waving an American flag. He will be dealt with
severely." Hartley, Iowa (pop. 1,650) was staging a demonstration of
Communism for a day.

The idea came to Ingwer Hansen one day last spring when he was listening
to an American Legion radio program in which Communists seized the
Government. Hansen, who carries the town's mail, is also the local
Legion commander and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce....